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againstmybetterjudgement
againstmybetterjudgement

“In many Western spaces, good grief is quiet, tame, dry, and controlled. It does not make a scene, it does not scream at the attending physician, and it does not soil its pants in shock. It does not sweat, race, wail, smash, or howl. It does not tell the truth about itself, it does not argue or say no to help. It does not resist pathology or naming, it does not resist ‘expert’ information or referral [… .] Good grief is gendered, staged, linear, white, and bound by privilege and reason.Good grief is productive, never interfering with the business, the family, or the community. It is graceful and always grateful for expert intervention. It is not angry or selfish. It never goes public [… .] Quite simply, good grief never breaks open the bone. But we are not interested in good grief.”

— Jennifer M. Poole and Jennifer Ward. “ ‘Breaking Open the Bone’: Storying, Sanism, and Mad Grief.” from Mad Matters: A Critical Reader in Canadian Mad Studies

davinky-deactivated20210909
davinky-deactivated20210909
Is It Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria or Complex Trauma?
There’s a new pathological term picking up speed in the ADHD community: Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. It describes that feeling we are…
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I've never liked the term "Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria" and how it's seen as a symptom of ADHD but I could never really verbalize or pinpoint why that is. This article is a fantastic explaination of why RSD is not really a symptom of ADHD, but the result of the trauma of being neurodivergent in an ableist world.

biandlesbianliterature
biandlesbianliterature

“Prefigurative politics is a fancy term for the idea of imagining and building the world we want to see now. It’s waking up and acting as if the revolution has happened. It’s, for example, building a sliding scale community acupuncture clinic that is affordable and centers disabled and working-class/poor and Black, Indigenous, and people of color instead of writing reports about how the medical-industrial complex is fucking up. (Though that can be important too.) I think of it as akin to the Allied Media Conference principles of ‘We spend more time building than attacking’ and 'We focus on our power, not our powerlessness.’”

— Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

biandlesbianliterature
biandlesbianliterature

“Femmes, I love you when your hands shake too much from meds or stress or disability to put on eyeliner, let alone put it on perfectly. I love you when you don’t wear eyeliner. I love you when you are deeply sad, raging, in despair, not ‘pretty,’ in the same sweats for three days or a month, when you smell like sweat and fear and the deep said. I love you when you cough up phlegm. I love you when you scream and rage and ache. I love you when you don’t wear those five-inch heels because your feet hurt or because it’s a sexier choice as a disabled femme to wear kicks (like the gold glitter ones I am wearing right now). And I want a community where we can be messy, in pain, hurting, imperfect, and we really know that our genders are still seen and cherished.”

— Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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neurowonderful: “[Image description: White rectangles filled with text overlaid on a photo of the Capitol Crawl that took place on March 12, 1990. The photo shows a blonde eight-year-old named Jennifer Keelan, who has cerebral palsy, walking on hands...
neurowonderful

[Image description: White rectangles filled with text overlaid on a photo of the Capitol Crawl that took place on March 12, 1990. The photo shows a blonde eight-year-old named Jennifer Keelan, who has cerebral palsy, walking on hands and knees as she leads a group of physically disabled people in crawling and walking up the stone steps leading to the austere white Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

The text reads, “Not person experiencing disability as in ‘a Republican president gave me the ADA’, Capital D Disabled as in people literally crawling up the steps and parking their chairs in front of buses gave me the ADA” and is credited to activist Kassiane Asasumasu. End of image description.]

jayranwritesthings
jayranwritesthings

Me: *googles ‘autism and pregnancy’*

What I’m looking for: 

  • information about how autistic women experience pregnancy and birth
  • how to manage having a baby when you’re on the spectrum
  • how sensory issues affect things like morning sickness and contractions
  • support for parents with disabilities
  • how to manage food difficulties

What I find: 

  • “eat these 5 foods to avoid having an autistic baby! Don’t wait until the kid’s born to purge out every last trace of uniqueness, let grass-fed kale-infused omega 3 fish oil help!”
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birlinterrupted

yeah i guess its funny to joke abt conservatives protesting to die for the sanctity of Cracker Barrell but at the same time i think it misses the more insidious evil that most of them are protesting the government to compel other people to work (either for them as employees or for them in service/retail professions). I don’t think its a coincidence that rich white str8 women (the Platonic Ideal of the American Consumer) figure so prominently and visibly into these protests

probodilyautonomy

its so clear that none of the people protesting want themselves to go back to work!! they want OTHER people to go back to work so that THEY can enjoy all the services they think they deserve during a pandemic. they feel safe so they couldnt care less about vulnerable people.

That one pic of the white woman with the “i wanna see a manager hair” holding up a sign that says “I WANT A HAIRCUT” is so disgustingly overt. they dont want to go back to work, they want YOU to go back to work. They want YOU to do things FOR THEM because they don’t like the inconvienience that this contagious pathogen has caused. if i could beat that womans ass i would in a heartbeat.